Sylvester Lepkyi (; 31 December 1845 – 5 June 1901) was a Ukrainian writer, religious and public figure. Father of Bohdan, Levko and Mykola, grandfather of Marko Lepkyi.

Biography

Sylvester Lepkyi was born on 31 December 1845 in the town of

Kulykiv Kulykiv (; ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located about north of the city of Lviv. Kulykiv hosts the administration of Kulykiv settlement hromada, one of t ...

, now a rural settlement in the

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. In 1871 he graduated from the Lviv Theological Seminary. In the same year he was ordained a Greek Catholic priest. He served in the parishes of villages in Lviv and Ternopil Regions, in particular, from 1892 he served in Zhukiv. Lepkyi was a member of the Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party and was also a member of other societies and organizations. In

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, he headed the public self-government body "Selianska Rada" and co-founded branches and reading rooms of the "

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" and "" societies in the villages of Husiatyn and Berezhany districts. He was active in organizing amateur theaters, for which he wrote plays. Lepkyi died on 5 June 1901 in the village of Zhukiv, now

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in the

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Works

In 1867, in Lviv, together with Kornylo Sushkevych, he compiled the collection "Poezii Tarasa Shevchenka" (vols. 1-2), and in 1886 he edited the butterfly brochures "Odnodnivka Berezhanska". He was published in the newspapers '' Dilo'', ''Bukovyna'', ''Zoria'' magazine, the anthology "Akordy", the collection "Na velyki rokovyny i v pamiat Ivana Kotliarevskoho", and others. In 1866, he wrote his first poem, "Vspomynky smerti Hryhoriia barona Yakhymovycha, mytropolyta Halytskoi Rusi, batka vitchyny". Later on, his poems focused on raising the national consciousness of the Ukrainian nation and the struggle for its own statehood. In 1903, his son Bohdan Lepkyi compiled and published the collection "Knyzhka horia" in Lviv. Some of his poems were published in 1994 in the collection "Bohoslaven" in Ternopil. He is the author of the words of the church song "Christ is Risen!" ("Radist z neba sia yavliaie...").''Луцька М''
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(29 січ.). — С. 6. Lepkyi's works include articles on philosophy, literature, sociology, economics, and agronomy. He maintained creative ties through correspondence with , Osyp Makovei,

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Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first d ...

, and Kornylo Ustianovych, and .

References

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